Searching for Exciting States: Curricular Reform in Chemistry at MSU

寻找令人兴奋的状态：密歇根州立大学化学课程改革

• 批准号: 9450690
• 负责人: Stanley Crouch
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Michigan State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1994
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1994-01-01 至 1995-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9450690&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Searching; Exciting; States; Curricular; Reform

9450690 Crouch Curricular changes are proposed that will introduce chemical principles in the context of relevant issues (the environment, health care, utilization of energy, etc.). Instead of teaching chemical concepts in the conventional fashion (of microscopic-to- macroscopic), our approach will begin by identifying the concepts associated with some chemical system; thereafter, the system will be studied from the top down, presenting and explaining chemical details on a "need-to-know" basis. These approaches will require using techniques that significantly enhance the amount of active learning that will take place in classrooms and laboratories, with a concomitant emphasis on learning by doing rather than by listening. There will be extensive computer utilization for allowing interactive independent study and self-testing, and for nomenclature, chemical bonding, etc. Appropriate uses of information technologies will reduce dramatically the amount of time needed for conventional classroom lecturing, and provide, instead, time for identifying and understanding the unity, coherence, and relevance of various chemical concepts. Laboratory settings will stress group-learning and team-oriented experiments so that students may cooperate in solving laboratory problems without merely following a cookbook, and in some cases, without the costs of providing each student with a full set of laboratory tools. To plan a broad revision of the curriculum, two types of workshops will be held. Faculty from small colleges, where innovative educational modes have already been introduced, will be invited to the first workshop to present ideas and discuss ways to implement such changes in the environment of a large university. A second workshop will invite participants form various Michigan State University departments that require chemistry courses as part of their curriculum. This workshop will focus on planning actual course outlines to better serve the needs of the clients, while maintaining the elements of the proposed curricular revisions. ***y

小行星9450690 建议修改课程，在有关问题（环境、保健、能源利用等）的背景下引入化学原理。 我们的方法不是以传统的方式（从微观到宏观）教授化学概念，而是从识别与某些化学系统相关的概念开始开始;此后，该系统将从上到下进行研究，在“需要知道”的基础上介绍和解释化学细节。 这些方法将需要使用的技术，大大提高了积极学习的数量，将在教室和实验室进行，同时强调在做而不是听的学习。 将有广泛的计算机利用，使互动的独立研究和自我测试，并命名，化学键合，等适当使用信息技术将大大减少传统的课堂教学所需的时间，并提供，而不是，时间识别和理解的统一性，连贯性和相关性的各种化学概念。 实验室设置将强调小组学习和团队为导向的实验，使学生可以合作解决实验室问题，而不仅仅是遵循食谱，在某些情况下，没有为每个学生提供全套实验室工具的成本。 为了计划对课程进行广泛的修订，将举办两类讲习班。 第一次研讨会将邀请已经引入创新教育模式的小型学院的教师提出想法，并讨论如何在大型大学的环境中实施这种变化。 第二个研讨会将邀请来自密歇根州立大学各个部门的参与者，这些部门需要化学课程作为其课程的一部分。 该讲习班将侧重于规划实际课程大纲，以便更好地满足客户的需要，同时保留拟议课程修订的内容。 *y